Darrel Drury and Harold Doran, New American Schools
January 2003
Darrel Drury and Harold Doran of New American Schools wrote this wee (4-page) policy research brief for the National School Boards Association. It supplies an excellent introduction to value-added analysis of test-score data, addresses a number of concerns and objections that have been raised about this kind of analysis, indicates some important uses to which such analyses can be put, and briefly discusses the relationship of value-added analysis to No Child Left Behind. Well worth your while, and findable at http://www.newamericanschools.org/uploadedfiles/DruryDoranPolicyResearchBriefWeb%20site.pdf.
